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The Shape of Water leads Oscar nominations


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The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards have been announced, with The Shape of Water leading the field.

Guillermo del Toro's fantasy romance received 13 nominations, including best picture.

World War Two drama Dunkirk follows with eight nominations, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri received seven.

British stars shortlisted include Gary Oldman, Sally Hawkins and a pair of Daniels - Day-Lewis and Kaluuya.

Greta Gerwig has landed a best director nomination for Lady Bird, one of nine films shortlisted for the best picture award.

Image copyright Fox Image caption Woody Harrelson and Frances McDormand are both nominated in Three Billboards

Others include Steven Spielberg's The Post, gay romance Call Me By Your Name and Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour.

Oldman's performance as Churchill has already won the British actor a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award.

To win the Oscar, though, he will have to beat three-time best actor winner Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, nominated again for Phantom Thread.

Meryl Streep's best actress nomination for newspaper drama The Post is her 17th for best actress and her 21st overall.

The three-time Oscar winner said she was "honoured beyond measure" to be recognised for "a film that stands in defence of press freedom and inclusion of women's voices in the movement of history".

Image copyright Universal Image caption Lady Bird's nominations included best director and best picture

Frances McDormand is tipped to be this year's winner for her role as a grieving mother in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Two of McDormand's co-stars, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell, go head to head in the best supporting actor category.

The Shape of Water has also fared well in the acting categories, with nominations for Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer alongside Hawkins' best actress nod.

Del Toro's film narrowly missed out on tying with the previous nomination record of 14, obtained by the films All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land.

How diverse are this year's nominations?

Diversity continues to be a hot topic in Hollywood, which has been rocked this year by sexual harassment scandals, concerns over gender pay equality and the role of women both in front of and behind the camera.

These topics appear to have had an impact on this year's nominations, which are largely free of embarrassing exclusions and the kind of all-white line-ups that led to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign on social media.

Greta Gerwig's nomination in the best director category will placate those who expressed displeasure at the Golden Globes' all-male directing nominees, even if she is only the fifth woman in history to be afforded that honour.

And while there are no non-white performers up for best actress or best supporting actor, there are two black males up for best actor - Denzel Washington and Britain's Daniel Kaluuya - and another two shortlisted for best supporting actress.

Jordan Peele's best director nomination for Get Out is also significant, given he is only the fifth black film-maker to be considered for the award.

"Right now I'm just thinking about everyone who bought a ticket and told someone else to," Peele tweeted in response to his film's four nominations. "You did this."

Image copyright Sony Image caption Christopher Plummer has been nominated for playing J Paul Getty in All the Money in the World

Eight of this year's female acting contenders are aged over 40, while Christopher Plummer becomes the oldest man to be nominated for best supporting actor for All the Money in the World.

Plummer, 88, took over the role of J Paul Getty in Sir Ridley Scott's film after the director decided to erase Kevin Spacey's performance as the US billionaire.

At 89, meanwhile, Belgian director Agnes Varda - whose film Faces Places is up for best documentary feature - is believed to be the oldest Oscar nominee ever.

Varda is a week older than fellow 89-year-old James Ivory, who has been nominated for writing Call Me By Your Name's screenplay.

The Academy has recently strived to broaden the ethnic, age and gender make-up of its membership, which may have filtered through to this year's nominations.

Yet the Academy still has a long way to go, as a comparison between male and female nominees in some of the key categories attests.

Notable firsts include Rachel Morrison's best cinematography nomination for Mudbound, Netflix's drama about racial tension in Mississippi.

Morrison, whose other credits include the forthcoming Black Panther, is the first woman ever to receive a nomination in this category.

Image copyright Netflix Image caption Mary J Blige is up for two awards for her contributions to Mudbound

Mudbound's Mary J Blige also makes history by getting nominations for best supporting actress and best song in the same year.

The nine-time Grammy winner co-wrote Mighty River for the film, which is also recognised for its adapted screenplay.

Snubs and surprises

Among those to miss out this year include James Franco, who had been tipped by some to get a best actor nod for The Disaster Artist.

The US actor recently became the subject of sexual harassment allegations which may have hurt his chances of an Oscar nomination.

London-born Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards' writer-director, is also a surprise omission from the best director line-up.

Surprise nominees include Britain's Lesley Manville, up for playing Day-Lewis's sister in fashion-based period piece Phantom Thread.

Paul Thomas Anderson's film, also up for best picture, best director and two other awards, did much better than many had expected.

The nominations were announced in Los Angeles by British actor Andy Serkis and Girls Trip actress Tiffany Haddish.

Jimmy Kimmel will return to host this year's ceremony, to be held on 4 March at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Nominations co-host Tiffany Haddish's mispronunciations gave viewers a giggle

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- Pengumuman nominasi dari 24 kategori Oscar baru saja dibacakan. Film 'The Shape of Water' tercatat memimpin perolehan nominasi.Film arahan Guillermo del Toro itu mendapatkan 13 nominasi yang di antaranya menempatkan film itu masuk dalam nominasi besar di ajang tersebut. Di antaranya Leading Role Actress juga Best Director yang menyebut nama sang sutradara.'The Shape of Water' bercerita tentang hubungan di antara manusia dan makhluk asing dari perairan Amazon. Sally Hawkins berperan sebagai sang wanita yang akhirnya tertarik pada makhluk tersebut.Guillermo del Toro menyebut film ini menjadi bagian kisah horor yang terekam di kepalanya sejak kecil. Sementara kritikus menilai 'The Shape of Water' mengikuti kepiawaian yang dimiliki del Toro sejak 'Pans of Labyrinth' yang juga tercatat masuk di ajang Oscar beberapa tahun lalu.Film lain yang juga mendominasi di antaranya 'Dunkirk' yang tercatat masuk dalam 7 nominasi. Diikuti 'Call Me by Your Name' juga black comedy 'Get Out' dan 'Phantom Thread'.Pembacaan nominasi telah dilangsungkan dari Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Malam puncak Oscar akan dihelat 5 Maret mendatang di Dolby Theater, Los Angeles.


Oscars 2018 Oscar nods pour in for The Shape of Water in year coloured by #MeToo Female-driven contenders including The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri pitched as riding cultural wave Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water. Photograph: Allstar/Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Shape of Water, a romantic fable about a janitor who falls in love with a sea creature, has won 13 Oscar nominations, leading a field of films with an unexpectedly strong British showing.

Guillermo del Toro’s cold war-era fantasy was nominated for best picture, best director and best actress for Sally Hawkins, who plays the mute cleaner, as well as in 10 other categories, part of a bumper haul on Tuesday just one nomination shy of the record for the most in Academy Awards history.

Christopher Nolan’s second world war epic Dunkirk followed with eight nominations, including best picture and director. Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri got seven, including best picture and best actress for Frances McDormand, who plays a mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the results, based on the votes of 8,400 members, in an elaborate ceremony in Los Angeles which set the stage for the 90th Academy Awards’ full red carpet pomp on 4 March.

Nine films were nominated for best picture, with Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, Darkest Hour, Get Out, Phantom Thread and The Post completing the list.

Gary Oldman was nominated for best actor for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, confirming his status as frontrunner. He will face competition from his fellow Brit Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays a dressmaker in Phantom Thread, a drama set in London’s 1950s couture world written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Daniel Kaluuya, another Brit, was nominated for his turn in Get Out, a horror-satire about race in America.

They will vie for a statuette against Timothée Chalamet, who stars in the gay coming of age story Call Me By Your Name, and Denzel Washington, who was praised for his performance in the otherwise largely unloved legal drama Roman J Israel, Esq.

James Franco had been tipped for a nomination after picking up a Golden Globe for his performance in The Disaster Artist but was locked out, prompting debate over whether it was due to allegations of sexual misconduct, which flared just before voting closed, or the Academy’s coolness towards comedies.

The #MeToo movement of feminist activism against sexual misconduct in Hollywood will colour this year’s Oscars, as it did the Globes and other awards. The producer Harvey Weinstein used to dominate Oscar campaigning but the Academy expelled him last October amid allegations of serial predatory behaviour, including rape.

Award contenders have pitched their films as riding current cultural waves. Three Billboards: a woman confronting male authority to exact justice for a raped, murdered daughter. The Post: a newspaper publisher played by Meryl Streep – who bagged her 21st Oscar nomination – defending press freedom against an abusive president.

“Hollywood has turned over the Oscars to the independent world with its myriad social issues,” said Richard Rushfield, who publishes a trade newsletter, The Ankler. “It’s much more attuned to the issues of the moment. Whether that speaks to mass audiences worldwide or to a highly sensitive cultural niche is another question.”

Lady Bird, about a mother-daughter relationship, has benefitted from its female focus, bagging nominations for its stars Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf and director Greta Gerwig, said Sasha Stone, who runs the site Awards Daily. “The mood is pushing Lady Bird higher than it normally would.”

Gerwig said in a statement: “This is an unbelievable honor and I am beside myself with joy and gratitude. I couldn’t be prouder of my brilliant women who led the cast.”

Stone attributed the unexpectedly strong showing of Darkest Hour, with seven nominations, and other results to the Academy’s British voting bloc, who also are Bafta members. “They’re very influential – they are a strong and powerful group.”

After the #OscarsSoWhite controversies of 2015 and 2016 the Academy accelerated recruitment of younger, more diverse members. It remains 72% male and 87% white but will probably avoid controversy this time. Jordan Peele was nominated for directing Get Out and the race drama Mudbound was nominated in the cinematography, adapted screenplay and original song categories. It missed bigger categories but analysts attributed that to Oscar voters’ sniffiness about the film’s television-focused distributor, Netflix.

The Shape of Water leads the pack but Three Billboards has momentum after sweeping the Globes and other awards.

However, McDonagh, its British writer-director, missed out on a directing nomination, which could impede its chances of taking best picture.

“I’m thrilled that our film has received seven nominations from the Academy, and that the beautiful work of our editor Jon Gregory, our composer Carter Burwell, my gentle brothers-in-arms Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell, and our fearless leader Frances McDormand, have all been recognised so wonderfully,” McDonagh said in a statement.


Oscars 2018 Oscars 2018: Shape of Water leads the way with bumper 13 nominations Guillermo del Toro fantasy picks up highest total, closely followed by Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri The full list of nominations for the Oscars 2018

Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer in Shape of Water Photograph: Fox Searchlight Pictures/AP

Guillermo del Toro’s drama The Shape of Water leads the way in nominations for this year’s Oscars.

The cold war-era fantasy, which stars Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaner who falls for a sea creature, picked up a bumper haul of 13 nominations, including best picture, best director for Del Toro and best actress for Hawkins.

However, the film faces Oscar competition from Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Dunkirk managed eight nominations, including best picture and best director for Nolan. McDonagh’s dark comedy-drama, which received the most awards at this month’s Golden Globes, earned seven nominations in total, including a best picture nomination, a best actress pick for Frances McDormand and supporting actor nods for Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson.

In total, there were nine films nominated for best picture, with Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, Darkest Hour, Get Out, Phantom Thread and The Post completing the list.

In the acting categories Gary Oldman confirmed his status as frontrunner for the best actor prize, receiving a nomination for his performance as Winston Churchill in another historical drama Darkest Hour. Oldman will face competition from fellow Brits Daniel Day-Lewis and Daniel Kaluuya, as well as Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet and Denzel Washington. However there was no spot for James Franco. The Disaster Artist star had been tipped for a nomination after picking up a Golden Globe for his performance in The Disaster Artist, but has been the subject of multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour in recent weeks.

Another British star, Phantom Thread’s Lesley Manville will battle it out against hot favourite Allison Janney (I, Tonya), in the supporting actress category, which also includes Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird), Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) and Mary J Blige (Mudbound). Facing up against McDormand and Hawkins in the best actress category are The Post’s Meryl Streep, I, Tonya’s Margot Robbie and Lady Bird’s Saoirse Ronan.

Despite concern that this year’s best director category would be a male-only affair, Greta Gerwig picked up a nomination for her coming of age drama Lady Bird, which received five nominations in total, while another female-directed film, Dee Rees’ second world war drama Mudbound also received five nominations, including a best cinematographer nod for Rachel Morrison, the first time in Academy history that a woman has been nominated in the category.

The 90th Academy Awards will take place on 4 March at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre. The ceremony will be hosted by late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who also hosted the 2017 Oscars.

Full list of nominations

Best picture

Call Me by Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Get Out

Lady Bird

Phantom Thread

The Post

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best actor

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name

Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Denzel Washington, Roman J Israel, Esq

Best actress

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Meryl Streep, The Post

Best supporting actress

Mary J Blige, Mudbound

Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best supporting actor

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water

Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World

Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best animated film

The Boss Baby

The Breadwinner

Coco

Ferdinand

Loving Vincent

Best director

Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Best documentary

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Faces Places

Icarus

Last Men in Aleppo

Strong Island

Best documentary short

Edith+Eddie

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Heroin(e)

Knife Skills

Traffic Stop

Best foreign language film

A Fantastic Woman

The Insult

Loveless

On Body and Soul

The Square

Best song

Mighty River, Mudbound

The Mystery of Love, Call Me by Your Name

Remember Me, Coco

Stand Up for Something, Marshall

This Is Me, The Greatest Showman

Best adapted screenplay

Call Me by Your Name

The Disaster Artist

Logan

Molly’s Game

Mudbound

Best original screenplay

The Big Sick

Get Out

Lady Bird

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best cinematography

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Mudbound

The Shape of Water

Best costume design

Beauty and the Beast

Darkest Hour

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Victoria & Abdul

Best editing

Baby Driver

Dunkirk

I, Tonya

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best makeup and hair

Darkest Hour

Victoria & Abdul

Wonder

Best score

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best production design

Beauty and the Beast

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Best animated short

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Lou

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

Best live action short

DeKalb Elementary

The Eleven O’Clock

My Nephew Emmett

The Silent Child

Watu Wote/All of Us

Best sound editing

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best sound mixing

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best visual effects

Blade Runner 2049

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Kong: Skull Island

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

War for the Planet of the Apes

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